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Ionia and Italy --
Thales: inventor of physics and philosophy --
Anaximander: the ideal of neutral matter --
Anaximenes: change without personality --
Pythagoras and his school: the music of the spheres --
Heraclitus: time versus eternity --
Parmenides: logic and mysticism --
Zeno of Elea: the paradox of motion --
Empedocles: too much imagination --
Democritus and the atomic theory: materialism --
Athens: the school of Greece --
Anaxagoras: mind orders all things --
Archelaus: the first Athenian scientist --
The Sophists: how to succeed in Athens --
Socrates: the search for the self --
Plato: order, fact, and value --
Aristotle: the organization of all reality.